[Elecraft] QRQ CW

[dave]

Speaking of contesting and QRQ . . . one of the things I have wondered 
about is what is the correlation between contest score and CW speed? 
Has anyone ever noted speed and then compared to score?

There are obviously a lot of pitfalls to this - antenna, location, and 
op being the main ones. But I suspect that the winners do not 
regularly run high speed. Too much noise, too many ops who can't copy 
high speed, etc. And if you want the weak, rare mults to pull you out 
you need to be sure they can copy your dits as dits and not confuse 
them with noise bursts.

As for the chap who commented he routinely ran 40+ wpm, well, I guess 
he is one of those I regularly skip over when I'm working S&P.

73 de dave
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